Book record
Yi Sang: Selected Works
Yi Sang
Translated from Korean, Japanese by Don Mee Choi
Yi Sang: Selected Works, by Yi Sang, is a selected poetry volume from South Korea, translated from Korean, Japanese by Don Mee Choi, Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, Joyelle McSweeney, published by Wave Books. It offers an encounter with one of Korean modernism's great estranging minds, a writer whose fractured surfaces make thought feel architectural, comic, anxious, and exacting. Selected volumes are useful because they let a reader hear range without pretending the whole career has been settled. The best way in is not to hunt for the representative poem, but to notice which line or image starts altering the room around you. As translated poetry, it matters because it gives English-language readers an entrance without making the poet smaller.
- Publisher
- Wave Books
- Language
- Korean, Japanese
- Country
- South Korea